Mr. Pedersen has represented individual entrepreneurs and large and small enterprises in a wide variety of business transactions. Much of his practice is focused on transactions with international aspects, including inbound and outbound investments, planning and implementation of offshore business operations and joint ventures, international financial transactions, and cross-border purchase, sale and distribution of goods. He also practices in the related areas of U.S. export controls and international legal compliance. In addition to his international experience, his practice involves representation of individuals and entities in many types of wholly domestic business transactions, including business acquisitions and dispositions, asset purchases and sales, succession planning for closely held businesses, real estate transactions, including acquisitions, leasing transactions and real estate development, planning and structuring of new businesses, and business agreements such as employment agreements, licenses, loan and credit agreements, distribution and sales representative agreements, and the like.

· Letters of Credit, Tax Management Foreign Income Portfolio No. 418 (1980) (with William P. Streng)

· Reporting of Foreign Investment in U.S. Business--Commerce Department Requirements, Tax Management International Journal, TMIJ 80-8, August, 1980

· Choice of Law and Usury Limits under Texas Law and the National Bank Act, 34 Sw.L.J. 755 (1980) (with John C. Cox)

· U.S. Regulation of Participation in Foreign Boycotts – Commerce Department and Treasury Department Regulations, Tax Management International Journal, TMIJ 80-9, and 80-10, September, 1980 and October, 1980

· Woods-Tucker – A New Analysis of Texas Choice of Law Principles?, 18 Bulletin of the Section on Corporation, Banking & Business Law 11 (1981) (with John C. Cox)

· Real Estate Investments by Foreign Persons After the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of 1980, 11 Real Estate L.J. (1982) (with William M. Sharp)

· Foreign Investment in the United States – Reporting Requirements, Tax Management Foreign Income Portfolio No. 428 (1982)

· Letters of Credit – Chapter 17, SMU Institute on International Finance (1985) (with Dana G. Nahlen)

· Conflict of Laws, 40 Sw. L.J. 401 (1986) (with James Paul George)

· Conflict of Laws, 41 Sw. L.J. 383 (1987) (with James Paul George)